dankyle67
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macbook pro disk locked
Hi,
a friend of mine gave me his macbook pro to work on after trying to get help at apple store without any luck. The problem is that i think when he was trying to upgrade os to mountain lion the process locks the disk and the i seem to remember this happened to another person i knew last year. Apple says the disk is bad but i ran the disk utility and says fine. I wish i could remember how we got the other macbook to get thru the upgrade but the disks are viewable in the disk utility after i hit the alt(option) key at startup where i then entered the recovery area. This person has time machine backups but they are from 2yrs ago and he wants to be able to keep his pictures on the existing drive. Any ideas?
a friend of mine gave me his macbook pro to work on after trying to get help at apple store without any luck. The problem is that i think when he was trying to upgrade os to mountain lion the process locks the disk and the i seem to remember this happened to another person i knew last year. Apple says the disk is bad but i ran the disk utility and says fine. I wish i could remember how we got the other macbook to get thru the upgrade but the disks are viewable in the disk utility after i hit the alt(option) key at startup where i then entered the recovery area. This person has time machine backups but they are from 2yrs ago and he wants to be able to keep his pictures on the existing drive. Any ideas?
strung
Have you run Repair Disk from Disk Utility in the recovery partition? Also, when in the recovery partition, what does Disk Utility show for the S.M.A.R.T. condition of the disk?
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I'm in the Disk Utility now and status of S.M.A.R.T. is verified. I remember seeing a smaller partition which says recovery so would i be able to use this? I'm kinda confused as to how to use the source and target part of the utility. I also have his time machine as mentioned but its from 2yrs ago so hoping not to have to use that.
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Yes i have another macbook so what are the actual steps to do the procedure you mentioned? In other words, would the other person's mac need wireless access to my mac?
Do you have a thunderbolt cable? Boot it into Target mode by holding down tduring boot. Connect the 2 macs then you can copy the files.
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I would generally make a copy of the data before doing the recovery, just in case. What strung describes should not wipe any data or configuration. It only restores all Operating System files.
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